I know this is old news. However I have to ask myself, what’s stopping a scam artist from using this?

It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard for someone to walk into a bank, request your information, and walk out. Or worse call them up, request the information, and have it faxed/emailed to them. Personally I think the email part would be more difficult because you couldn’t exactly tell them to send it to your gmail account. But a fax number is easy enough.

I believe the law also makes it illegal for you to talk to anyone about it. You know family, friends, co-works, police, media etc. So you’d never know about it.

It’s the pefect law that was ment to help “the good guys” that can easily be exploited by anyone with enough balls to try and pull it off, and after that they’ve got all the information they need to withdraw all your funds, and have them wired to a swiss bank account.